Topic: Asylum Seekers

26 January 2012 Tent Embassy 40th Anniversary Demonstrations Australia Day this year marked the 40th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. Tent embassy was founded ... Read More

12 January 2012 Marlon Noble to be released from WA Prison Marlon Noble, a mentally impaired West Australian man, is to be released after spending ... Read More

24 December 2011 Robert Manne encourages self-scrutiny on asylum seeker policy The recent sinking of a fishing boat that was carrying asylum seekers to Australia ... Read More

8 December 2011 Labor Party to support gay marriage The Australian Labor Party has made an historic vote to change its platform to support gay ... Read More

This article is part of our December theme, which focuses on one of the least appreciated but most fundamental aspects of well-being: housing. Read our ... Read More

18 November 2011 Historical Equal Pay Agreement It has been announced that the Federal Government and the Australian Services Union will make a joint submission ... Read More

It was not so long ago that it was common to have a pen-pal. Remember receiving an envelope via snail mail stamped from a foreign ... Read More

Emmanuel Jal – a former child soldier and hip-hop singer of worldwide acclaim – spoke to Alicia Sometimes at You Say You Want a Revolution: ... Read More

Amnesty International’s “Change The World” Human Rights Conference, held in Brisbane from 6 to 8 October 2011, was no ordinary conference. More like the “Woodstock ... Read More

The Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH) held its second annual Law and Social Change Dialogue on Thursday 25 August at the State Library of ... Read More